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Information Systems & Databases

The Chair of Computer Science 5 - Information Systems works on the formal analysis, prototypical development, and practical testing of meta-information systems. These systems are used to document and coordinate the distributed design, integration, and evolution of database-centered applications in computer science. Our research topics include Internet Information Systems, Electronic Commerce, Database and Meta-Database Technology, Information Systems in Chemical Engineering, Process-Integrated Information Systems, and Information Systems on Cultural Sciences. The Chair of Computer Science 5 is part of the Department of Computer Science of RWTH Aachen University.

Informatik 5 is headed by Prof. Dr. M. Jarke who is also head of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT). Prof. Jarke is founder director of the Bonn-Aachen International Graduate Center for Information Technology (B-IT) which is supported by RWTH Aachen University, the University of Bonn, and the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. He is also past president of the German Informatics Society (GI). Affiliated to Informatik 5 are the teaching and research areas for Knowledge-based Systems/Cognitive Robotics (Prof. Gerhard Lakemeyer, Ph.D.), Visual  Knowledge Management/Life Science Informatik (Prof. Dr. Thomas Berlage), Cooperation Systems/CSCW (Prof. Wolfgang Prinz, Ph.D.), and Media Informatics/Media Processes (Prof. Dr. Thomas Rose).